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Quotes About Outside

Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.
~ Rachel Caine
The wall clock and her wristwatch had stopped, their sweep hands no longer wiping away the seconds, and the digital clock on the microwave had gone dark, as if something that lived outside of time had stepped into this world and brought its clockless ambiance with it.
~ Dean Koontz
Sooner or later the mind grasps at a thought and follows it into the labyrinth, one thought branching into another. Then the labyrinth caves in on itself and you find yourself outside. You were never inside—it was a dream.
~ Denis Johnson
More likely he's gone outside the city, using John—er, his lordship, I mean—as a hostage to get past the pickets, if necessary. Probably he'll let him go as soon as they're far enough away for safety.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
~ Jeff Koons
Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.
~ Ishmael Reed
Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps, and the hanging garden of the Great Khan's palace. It is our eyelids that separate them, but we cannot know which is inside and which outside.
~ Italo Calvino
The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me.
~ John Boyne
Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside.
~ John Bradshaw
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
~ Hilaire Belloc
I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.
~ Cassandra Clare
My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
~ Najib Mikati
I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.
~ Dick Francis
A surface separates inside from out and belongs no less to one than the other.
~ Don DeLillo
Nobody questions the importance of knowing what happens outside, but such knowledge should be preceded by knowing what happens inside. Generally, benchmarking will not help resolve incorrectly formulated questions or questions that are misdirected. Externalism can harm human capital management as much as self-centeredness can. An appropriate balance between looking outside and knowing the inside seems to be the obvious solution to this crisis.
~ Unknown
You grown-ups are making too much noise! Go play Outside for awhile. February
~ Unknown
There's a goblin as green As a goblin can be Who is sitting outside And is waiting for me. When he knocked on my door And said softly, "Come play!" I answered, "No thank you, Now please, go away!" But the goblin as green As a goblin can be Is still sitting outside And is waiting for me.
~ Jack Prelutsky
Asking for outside help, or even if it comes unasked, to allow outside help, needs a certain gracefulness and humility. Otherwise, you cannot allow outside help. Lots of people cannot receive something gracefully. Always, the social ethics have taught you that giving is important, taking is not important. Yes, taking is not important, taking is ugly, but receiving is very important.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
People can't fix from the outside a perspective that needs to be rewired on the inside. Only the Lord can do that.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
~ Martin Luther
The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
~ John Updike
In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.
~ Unknown
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
~ Alan Watts